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Elizabeth Jones: ancient DNA as "celebrity science"

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

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The Most Surprising Thing in Your Research

The main thing was just, you know, I knew the ancient DNA research was a competitive field but to really find out how like personally and professionally difficult it was for many of the researchers. And also how candid everyone was with me, granted the interviews were anonymous perhaps that's why, but they were very forthcoming with their experiences. It shows that these ideas, this kind of speculative idea of what can we get DNA from was not just an isolated idea it was,you know, part of part of the culture.

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